Interaction between the Different Leadership Styles on Innovative Behavior based on Organizational Culture in Ecological Industry: Empirical Research from China

Owing to the accelerating of globalization in past years and the changeable technologies, a lot of companies positively promote innovation or personal creativity, expecting to achieve the sustainable management in the changeable environment. An enterprise has to constantly create new products, services, and processes to stand on the top. For this reason, innovation is regarded as a method of enterprise survival. There are certain risks for innovation. However, it would be dangerous for an enterprise remain the same, as the competitors might outperform with the development of more competitive innovation technology and the application of novel thinking. Innovation is inevitable in technology, service, and manufacturing industries, as an enterprise would not achieve the sustainable management without innovation. In the globally competitive environment, the size of an enterprise and the departments or staff in an enterprise should be innovated to maintain certain competitiveness and keep the leading status in the market. It is worth noticing that, among various factors in employees' innovation or creativity, leadership might be the essential factor in employees' creativity. In other words, a leader could establish situations and conditions to facilitate the subordinates' performance on creativity and further achieve the goal. Nonetheless, several studies on innovation focused on organizational innovation, but seldom studied employees' creativity and innovation capabilities. Since employees' creativity and innovation are the sources of organizational innovation, it is considered essential to study employee innovation. Aiming at the effect of leadership style on organizational culture and innovative behavior, ecological industry in Guangdong Province are sampled for the questionnaire survey. According to the statistical analyses, conclusions and suggestions are proposed, expecting to help ecological industry induce more innovative behaviors and performance of the employees.